The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The older you get, the better you get.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I have wasted my hours.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

We become what we repeatedly do.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.